The problem with drinking is the guilt about drinking problems. People are more addicted to shaming themselves for enjoying something, than they are to the thin

The problem with drinking is the guilt about drinking problems. People are more addicted to shaming themselves for enjoying something, than they are to the thing they wish they wouldn't enjoy. I put all that down to a hangover ( ... ) from our Western culture's Christian legacy programming. In a climate of pervasive fabricated guilt, people will fabricate the greater guilt of the Other to make themselves feel that little bit better. Hence the obsession with amateurs diagnosing the drinking problems of their peers, to assuage their own unresolved guilt! Let's drink to that!